Scrutiny Quotes

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan

Religion, Science, Deep

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas

Faith, Truth, Learning

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Maxwell Maltz

Crisis, Show, Either

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone

Men, Strength, Mind

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.
Anderson Cooper

Good, Everyone, Able

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
David Hockney

Second, Open, Fraction

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.
John O. Brennan

Law, American, Rule

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
Camille Paglia

Poetry, Words, Down

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.
Helena Bonham Carter

Life, Problems, Often

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
Dee Dee Myers

Good, Government, Generation

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
Halle Berry

Put, Criticism, Movie

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
Paula Radcliffe

Success, Successful, Together

But I also enjoy life... the more scrutiny I am under, the more confident I become. I am who I am. I can't do anything about it, and I love who I am.
Khloe Kardashian

Life, Love, Enjoy

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.
Tom Ford

Today, Strong, Candidates

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
Carol Bellamy

Children, Child, While

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
Florence Welch

Music, Character, Hard

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.
Nick Clegg

Try, Wrong, Tell

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Edward Bond

Art, Society, Reality

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.
Mario Monti

Goes, Italy, Spain

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.
Suzanne Fields

Fun, Lady, Easier

We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.
David Miliband

Keep, Public, United

You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.
Karlie Kloss

Opinion, Everyone, Hear

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Between, Desire, Unique

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
Andrew Lloyd Webber

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.
Mario Monti

Confidence, Vote, Question

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
Ken Thompson

Protect, Using, Code

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
Billy Bragg

Live, Integrity, Real

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.
Michael Hutchence

Life, Love, War

But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
Laura Bush

Husband, Mean, Wanted

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.
Andrew Bogut

Best, Game, Hard

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